If Stalin’s First Five Year Plan was an economic revolution, then forced collectivization was its brutal engine—a campaign of state terror that fundamentally reshaped Soviet society and left millions dead. While official propaganda touted the modernization of agriculture, historians like Robert Conquest, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Timothy Snyder have revealed the grim reality: a deliberate war … Continue reading Forced Collectivization in the USSR: The Brutal Backbone of the First Five Year Plan